21st Annual John H. Watson Picnic at Seahurst Park

July 29, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

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This is a pot-luck picnic, so please contribute food—salads, main dishes, chips, snacks, sweets and beverages. Please bring any special utensils you need! And, many thanks! Haugens will provide the forks, spoons, knives, plates, cups and napkins for all!! Picnic Chair SOB Paul will have the BBQ going, so bring your meat and vegetarians beware!!

I honestly can’t think of anything that defined my pre-teen years quite as much as Basil of Baker Street, both the original Eve Titus books and Disney’s Great Mouse Detective (which I still think is basically the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation evar, the end), which then led me to pick up the original Doyle when I was eight or nine.

Anyway, not going to lie, the illustrations in the original books by Paul Galdone were a huge drawing influence for me. I copied them diligently so that I could then do forgeries in the same style for scenes in my mental fanfic. (Mental, because I hadn’t yet encountered actual fanfiction, and thought that writing down my mental crimes would then be Plagiarism, something I took Very Seriously. Oh, child.)